The Arizona sentinel., 1887-07-09
HOME AND FARM.

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 A spoonful of vinegar in boiling meat makes it tender.
 The flesh of rattlesnake when cooked is as white as milk and very delicate.
 Boil pears from twenty to thirty minutes-twenty for halves and thirty for whole pears-using six ounces of sugar to quart can of fruit.
 If swine are to be kept on the farm the best profits will be found in the finest breeds that run into matured meat the first year.-St Louis Repub- licGg.
 Even on the best-regulated farms stock may be injured. Hence old wells, half-hidden ditches and such like should be covered or filled up.
 Window plants that appear yellow and sickly are generally found to be suffering from two much water and too much insect.
 To remove stains from cups or other articles of tableware or marble ized oil cloths, rub them with sale ratus, either with the finger or a piece of linen.
 Meat Cakes: One cup of chop ped cold neat and tablespoon of cat sup, one cup rolled crackers, one egg. Make into cakes; fry in hot lard.-- Baptist Weekly.
 Few creatures possess in a greater degree the virtue of gratitude and natural kindness than the horse. He is slow to forgive an injury, but never forgets continued kindness.
 Flour Gems: One egg, one table spoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter. one and one-half cupfuls of sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of bak- ing-powder, two and one-half cupfuls of four. Beat well. have your gem pan hot and buttered. Pour in and bake quick.-BoSton Budget
 Orange Pie: Rind of one orange grated, juice of two, six tablespoons fuls of sugar, yelks of four eggs, one cupful of milk. one tablespoonful of flour, little salt; while baking beat the whites of eggs with two table spoorfuls of sugar, put on the pie and brown. Use this same recipe for lemon pie, using water with lemon in the place of milk. Toledo Blade
 When varnish, few days sub- sequent to having been laid on, loses its gloss, it is said to have ''clouded." " This accident seldom happens except in damp weather. A varnish freshly spread and exposed to damp air be- comes covered by a mist which leaves its marks upon it. This defect may be remedied by exposure to the sum- National View.
 When your cane-seat chairs begin to wear out mend the break the best you can by weaving in cords, or if very bad, replace with piece of can vas securely tackled on; put on a gen. erous layer of cotton batting or curled hair, and cover with a piece of any kind of upholstery goods, an em- broidered pattern, crazy patchwork, or large dog -cabin'' block. Finish the edge with furniture gimp, and fringe if desired. The back may be finished with simular panel. dianapOIiS Journal.
 The farmer who keeps flock of twenty-five or thirty hens. with the usual accompaniment of hundred or more lively chicks, and allows them to share his domain in common with him. self. his other stock and farm utensils, finds perplexity and most abominable company at every turn. The hen at large, in her multiplied form, is worse than an army of locusts. and her fol- lowing as offensive as a pestilence.- M ]. ObSeruer.
 If fat and previously healthy-ap- bearing fowls are found dead under the roosts or on the nests the cause may be ascribed to apoplexy, and the feed should be at once reduced for the rest of the flock, as it is probable that all are too fat. If found alive, but stupid, with combs and gills turned black, bleed at once, either by cutting comb and gill or by opening the vein under the wing. Then shower the head with cold water and put in the hospital on scant allowance of soft food and handful of green leaves to pick att TTou Times.